{"id":333064,"date":"2025-10-26T04:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/333064\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:43:11","slug":"dodgers-manager-dave-roberts-doesnt-think-slugger-shohei-ohtani-heard-toronto-fans-taunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/333064\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers manager Dave Roberts doesn’t think slugger Shohei Ohtani heard Toronto fans’ taunts"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts doesn\u2019t think Shohei Ohtani heard fans in Toronto taunting him<\/a> during Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night, and he doesn\u2019t think the Japanese two-way sensation is bothered much by boos anyway.<\/p>\n

Upset that Ohtani spurned the Blue Jays to sign a $700 million contract with the Dodgers in December 2023, fans in Toronto chanted \u201cWe don\u2019t need you!\u201d when he came to the plate in the ninth inning with his team trailing by seven runs.<\/p>\n

Fans also booed Ohtani during pregame introductions. Ohtani appeared to smile at those jeers, but Roberts doesn\u2019t think he caught the late barbs.<\/p>\n

Ohtani was booed and met with the same chant \u2014 but not from the entire crowd \u2014 leading off Game 2, when he flied out to left field. He was 1 for 4 in Saturday\u2019s 5-1 victory<\/a> that evened the Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think he understood the chants,\u201d Roberts said before Game 2. \u201cAs far as being booed, I think that he understands why he was booed. I don\u2019t think he minds it. I don\u2019t think it necessarily fuels his fire. I\u2019ve used this word with Shohei a lot: he\u2019s just a really good compartmentalizer, so I don\u2019t think it really affects him, and he\u2019s just there to just do his job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberts later said Ohtani was too focused on batting to pay attention to the chants in the ninth. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was hitting and it was muddled,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI heard it, but I wasn\u2019t hitting. My point being is that I understand he understands the language, but he\u2019s still hitting in the box. I don\u2019t think his focus was on a chant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani hit his first World Series homer Friday but also grounded out with the bases loaded in the second inning. His lone hit was the soaring two-run shot to right field off Braydon Fisher in the seventh, but it came with LA trailing 11-2.<\/p>\n

Ohtani faced four different pitchers, two right-handers and two left-handers, in his five plate appearances. He finished 1 for 4 with a walk and struck out twice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do,\u201d Blue Jays manager John Schneider said of the different looks. \u201cIt\u2019s a seven-game series. You never know how it unfolds, but I\u2019m sure at some point there\u2019ll be some familiarity.\u201d<\/p>\n

As MLB commissioner Rob Manfred<\/a> noted on the field before Game 2, Ohtani has sparked record viewership in Japan by helping the Dodgers reach the Series in consecutive years.<\/p>\n

\u201cShohei, it just absolutely has been the greatest benefit to the game that you can imagine throughout the year,\u201d Manfred said. \u201cIn the LCS he had probably the greatest game of all time<\/a> and we\u2019re fortunate to have him here in the World Series.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts doesn\u2019t think Shohei Ohtani heard fans in Toronto taunting…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":333065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[591,276,875,57,137674,2502,1266,1822,104832,21368,4712,62,8790,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-333064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-dave-roberts","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-john-schneider","13":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-mlb-baseball","16":"tag-mlb-world-series","17":"tag-rob-manfred","18":"tag-shohei-ohtani","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-toronto","21":"tag-u-s-news","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115438643055078347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}